Earlier this week, just-drinks met with Miles Beale, the head of the UK's Wine & Spirit Trade Association, to discuss all things Brexit. In the first of this two-part interview, Beale looks back at how the country's wine and spirits categories have responded to the referendum vote in June that will see the UK leave the European Union.

In this, the second part of our interview the head of the UK's Wine & Spirit Trade Association, Miles Beale looks beyond the European Union and sees cause for optimism, despite the uncertainty of recent months.

Diageo reported a healthy set of first-half numbers, with sales rising strongly on the year-prior period. Here, just-drinks takes a closer look at the group's performance by region in the six months to the end of December. All figures are organic.

United Spirits has reported a lift in sales for the first nine months of its fiscal year, although the Indian company's top-line has been hampered by the country's demonetisation legislation in the third quarter.

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